Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) is a famous barber with a beautiful family, a perfect life. Until a day Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) bursts in into his life, and flirting with his wife, ignores she it, but Turpin insists and takes drastic measures. there am decided to exile to Barker so that it leaves the free path him, although with this only obtains her scorn. Much later Barker returns, with its full heart of hatred, resentment and revenge desires, no longer return like Barker, now are Sweeney Todd. When there am returns to his old barber’s shop finds to Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) and her store of meat pies, locates it and she shows like this the situation now to him: judge Turpin has his daughter, Johanna (Jayne Wisener), and his wife poison herself. Todd cannot hope to find to Turpin and Beadle (Timothy Spall),his partisan, to kill them and to satiate its thirst of revenge. Soon the barber’s shop of Sweeney Todd acquires fame of being the best one of all London, and Judge Turpin debia not to always have the best thing, was the suitable moment to carry out his spiteful plan, but, then I arrive Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower), a young person who Todd met in his trip to return to London and that tapeworm plans to escape with Johanna, when she saw it to Turpin, I accuse to Todd of treasonous and leave the place.
Mrs. Lovett, think a great idea, to kill people in the barber’s shop to use its meat to make pies and to reopen his forgotten business. She adopts to Tobby (Ed Sanders), a servant of one of her victim, so that it help in the business, that now be much successful, although have not suspect of where come from this meat.
People began to suspect, by the disagreeable scent that desprendia its chimney, the time was more and more short, and the possibilities that Turpin was, but distant. After thinking much, Todd devises a trap and manages to take to Turpin and Beadle to the barber’s shop and to end them. Finally he satiates his thirst of revenge and many truths are clarified for, Mrs. Lovett had lain to him…
This bloody musical was directed by Tim Burton in 2007, and written by John Logan (screenplay) and Stephen Sondheim (musical).
Tags: alan rickman, helena bonham carter, jamie campbell bower, johnny depp, Swenney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tim Burton, timothy spall
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